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Kolbasny syr (smoked sausage cheese)колбасный сыр

Kolbasny syr is a boundary entry, a processed cheese in which the only fermentation happened in the cheeses melted down to make it. Rennet cheese is melted with emulsifying salts into a paste, filled into sausage-shaped loaves in a smoke-permeable casing, and hot-smoked until the surface turns golden to brown. In a laboratory study of a milk-fat-substitute product made by the sausage-cheese method, the colour the trade standards call for came from 4 hours at 65 °C.

Fully documentedCheese5.3 h – 7.3 h

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedA factory recipe table (Kovalik and Neverova 2024) lists the raw materials for one batch of about 1,070 kg of mass, including 180 kg semi-hard cheese and 168 kg butter; it is a plant example, not a standard. The study product of Orlova had 40 % fat in dry matter.
Rennet cheeseThe ferment of this product is the cheese that goes into it[kovalik2024]
Emulsifying (melting) salts[kovalik2024]
Hardwood smoke (oak, beech, alder, birch, poplar); the study used alder briquettes[filadelfiysky2006][orlova2023]

Total time across the recorded steps: 5.3 h – 7.3 h

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What changes: Ground cheese, butter and melting salts are mixed and left to swell

Step 1 of 5
Prepare and mix the raw cheese with melting salts
Time
2–3 h
Reported
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented

Rinds and film are removed, the cheese is ground, butter is cut up and dry milk products are sieved. A recipe table in the same article lists semi-hard cheese, skim cheese, rework, butter, dry skim milk, whey powder, starch, salt, melting salts and water.

Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented

Microbes at work in this step

Not documented for this step.

Method

Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source

At a glance

Kolbasny syr is a boundary entry, a processed cheese in which the only fermentation happened in the cheeses melted down to make it. Rennet cheese is melted with emulsifying salts into a paste, filled into sausage-shaped loaves in a smoke-permeable casing, and hot-smoked until the surface turns golden to brown. In a laboratory study of a milk-fat-substitute product made by the sausage-cheese method, the colour the trade standards call for came from 4 hours at 65 °C. Made in 5 steps over 5.3 h – 7.3 h. The longest step, smoke the loaves, takes 3–4 h (Kovalik M.S 2024) and runs at 45–55 °C (Kovalik M.S 2024).

Key numbers
Main step3–4 hReported[kovalik2024]Smoke the loaves
Temperature45–55 °CReported[kovalik2024]Smoke the loaves

What makes this one different

A processed cheese shaped as a sausage and hot-smoked in its casing, so the smoke, not microbes, makes the last change.

Fat
40 % fat in dry matter in the study product (Orlova et al. 2023)
Share of output
A Tambov university paper says sausage cheese makes up three quarters of Russian processed cheese output, and processed cheese about 40 % of finished dairy output
Boundary
A processed cheese; fermentation happened only in the cheese used as raw material

Related ferments

Safety

Smoking adds resistance to oxidation and bacterial spoilage. Makers aim to keep tar and carcinogenic smoke compounds out of the product by using non-resinous hardwood and filtering the smoke.

Hazards the sources name: Bacillus subtilis, B. cereus, Clostridium butyricum and C. sporogenes, tested as inoculated spore-formers in model processed cheese (a related product, not sausage cheese); monoacylglycerols stopped both Bacillus species, and Clostridium was only partly inhibited.

History and sources

Every number is labelled with how it is known. How this atlas is made

A 2006 Tambov State Technical University paper (Filadelfiysky and colleagues) says sausage processed cheese then made up three quarters of the processed cheese made by Russian dairies, and processed cheese about 40 % of their finished output.

Starter
The sources we found do not say how its fermentation begins.
  1. [orlova2023] Orlova E.A., Kalabushkin V.V., Alekseeva E.V. 2023, Влияние режимов копчения на формирование цвета колбасных плавленых сыров (The influence of smoking modes on colour formation of sausage processed cheeses), Syrodelie i maslodelie no. 4, 30–33, doi:10.21603/2073-4018-2023-4-2paper
  2. [filadelfiysky2006] Filadelfiysky O.M., Goloshchapov P.S., Zyuzina O.V., Golikova I.V. 2006, Совершенствование технического обслуживания коптильной установки в производстве копченого колбасного сыра, Tambov State Technical Universityarchive
  3. [kovalik2024] Kovalik M.S., Neverova O.P. 2024, Колбасный плавленый копченый сыр. Технология производства (Sausage processed smoked cheese. Production technology), Молодёжь и наука no. 9, Ural State Agrarian Universitypaper
  4. [hauerlandova2014] Hauerlandová I., Lorencová E., Buňka F., Navrátil J., Janečková K., Buňková L. 2014, The influence of fat and monoacylglycerols on growth of spore-forming bacteria in processed cheese, International Journal of Food Microbiology 182-183:37–43, doi:10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2014.04.027 (abstract; model processed cheese, a related product)paper